The view is not being hidden - the whole app is. viewWillDisappear is called when within the life-cycle of a view, its actually about to get removed from the visible hierarchy.
There are two life-cycles you are mixing up: app lifecycle and view controller life cycle. The two do not mix. On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi All, > > According to the documentation in the headers: > > // UIViewController.h > // Called when the view is dismissed, covered or otherwise hidden. > - (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated; > > And Apple's documentation [1]: > > Notifies the view controller that its view is about to be dismissed, > covered, or otherwise hidden from view. > > I'm not sure if I should be surprised or not, but viewWillDisappear > does not appear to be called despite what the documentation claims. > > The view is part of a custom view controller (built with IB - nothing > fancy) and presented modally. To duplicate, show a view modally and > press the home button. Alex Kac - President and Founder Web Information Solutions, Inc. “Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.” -- B.C. Forbes, _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com